Johann Michael Malzat
Johann Michael Malzat (born April 21, 1749 in Vienna ; † May 13, 1787 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian classical composer .
Life
Johann Michael Malzat, was the son of the Bohemian musician and composer Josef Malzat (1723–1760), who worked as a violinist at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Johann Michael came to Tyrol at a young age , probably as a singing boy at Kremsmünster Abbey . He later worked in Lambach Abbey and Stams Abbey , the Tyrolean music center at the time, where Malzat spent some time teaching in the boys' school that was newly built in 1778. In 1780 and 1781 he worked in Bolzano , where the parish bought several symphonies and a Solennes Miserere from him . From 1781 he worked in the mining town of Schwaz and from 1784 with the counts of Tannenberg who lived there. For the last two years before his death he worked as a choirmaster at the Jesuit Church in Innsbruck. Among other things, the publisher Traeg from Vienna sold his works, who still offered them in his catalog in 1799.
His brother Ignaz Malzat (1757–1804) was a composer and court oboist in Salzburg and later in Passau.
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His compositions must have made a great impression, because in 1780 the chronicler from Stams describes him as a famous musician. Stams Abbey also keeps most of Malzat's extant compositions, such as 10 symphonies , a violin concerto, a cello concerto, 2 concerts for cor anglais, 3 concertante symphonies, numerous chamber music works, secular cantatas and sacred compositions of considerable quality, such as B. the large-scale Missa solemnis in C major, which gives an eloquent impression of the high demands of church music care at the time. The solemn Requiem from 1784 was probably intended for the Schwaz parish choir. In any case, this sublime work has been preserved in the music inventory of the local parish church, most of which is now kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Michael Malzat in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 11, Col. 935-936
- ^ MGG 1960 online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malzat, Johann Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1787 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |